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Sheldon Kennedy will admit he doesn’t do well with personal accolades but when he received the 2014 National Humanitarian of the Year honour from the David Foster Foundation in September, it struck a resounding chord within him. “It was a very emotional honour,” he said. “To be able to be recognized for the difficult social […]

Sheldon Kennedy’s career totals read something like this: 310 NHL games played, 49 goals scored, thousands of life assists off the ice. It’s been 18 years since he came forward to police in 1996 to tell of sexual abuse by his childhood hockey coach. At the time, Kennedy was a rare voice speaking out against that scourge that […]

When Louise Bradley settles into her seat on an airplane, the chit chat with her seatmate invariably turns into something much more meaningful. “When I tell them what I do, every single time they start to tell me about themselves, a family member or someone else close to them,” she says. “Every person has a story to tell — yet it’s the thing we still shroud in secrecy.”

Philanthropy is a long, complicated word to describe something indigenous people have been doing for centuries. For Casey Eagle Speaker, one of the speakers at The Walrus Talks Philanthropy, the latest instalment of which rolls into Theatre Junction Tuesday at 7 p.m., the operative term is gifting.

With a new fair play program encouraging better behaviour among parents at the rink, Hockey Calgary says it’s preparing to roll out a similar Respect in Sport course for young players. Hockey Calgary, Respect Group and Mount Royal University released some preliminary findings of a study launched when the Respect in Sport course was introduced three years ago.

For too many years, our beloved men and women in uniform have served far from the thoughts of most Canadians. True Patriot Love (TPL) aims to ensure our Canadian Forces men and women have private dollars at their disposal to address gaps inevitably left unfunded by government.

Child advocate Sheldon Kennedy is one of 16 recipients to be honoured at this year’s Calgary Awards. The former NHL player and victim of sexual abuse gave his name to a child advocacy centre that brings together police, doctors, nurses, social workers, psychologists and prosecutors in an effort to avoid making child victims repeat their story of abuse over and over again.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper added his voice to the growing condemnation over the case of a Nova Scotia teen driven to suicide following months of torment from peers after she was allegedly raped. Rehtaeh Parsons’ death has prompted renewed soul-searching across the country over the issue of bullying, just six months after the suicide of B.C. teen Amanda Todd sparked a similar public outpouring.

When all else fails, let the music play. The year was 1994 and Lt.-Gen. Romeo Dallaire, commander of the United Nations peacekeeping force in Rwanda, had run out of options. He and more than 200 others, many of them civilians, were being bombarded by artillery fire and bombs at his headquarters in the war-ravaged country. So he went and grabbed his portable radio and pushed the cassette play button.

The 30- to 60-year sentence handed to U.S. pedophile Jerry Sandusky, a former college football coach, is unheard of by Canadian standards, but one of the victims of notorious hockey coach Graham James says Canada is on the right track when dealing with child sexual abuse.